Real Estate, Film Industry Tycoon Wang Jianlin Is Forbes China's 2013 Businessman Of The Year

Forbes China, the licensed Chinese-language edition of Forbes magazine, has named real estate and film industry billionaire Wang Jianlin as its 2013 Businessman of the Year in its latest edition unveiled on Wednesday.

Wang topped the 2013 Forbes China Rich List published in October with wealth of $14.1 billion, after profiting from gains in the country’s real estate market this year. The Beijing-based entrepreneur chairs the Dalian Wanda Group, which has also stepped up its overseas investments in the past year two years. AMC, a U.S. movie-theatre chain subsidiary that was purchased by Wang last year, went public at the New York Stock Exchange earlier this month. The acquisition has turned Wanda into the world’s largest operator of movie theatres.

Just last month, Wang was also named 2013 Businessman of the Year by Forbes Asia. “What Wang’s boldness, indeed his showmanship, on the world stage is surely signifying is a China without boundaries,” I wrote of Wang in Forbes Asia last month.